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Moods for writing
3/5/15 22:04Even though I am a great believer in the power of just showing up and doing the work even when you feel meh or uninspired, I think I certainly couldn't get through a novel without those moments when I feel entirely passionate and determined about what I'm writing.
But there are a lot of different moods for that. And one of those moods is "I WILL FIGHT YOU."
I suspect that I would not write at all -- not enough to even try to make a career of it, anyway -- if I did not occasionally have these moments of wanting to take on every glib sentiment in the world, every bit of lowest-common-denominator entertainment, everything that was not bad so much as lazy and bored.
And it feels arrogant, often, to feel like I can do better than that -- it feels like if I could, I'd have gotten further in my writing career by now -- but so much of what's good in the world is just the product of people being arrogant enough to believe, even just in scattered moments, that they could do something great.
But there are a lot of different moods for that. And one of those moods is "I WILL FIGHT YOU."
I suspect that I would not write at all -- not enough to even try to make a career of it, anyway -- if I did not occasionally have these moments of wanting to take on every glib sentiment in the world, every bit of lowest-common-denominator entertainment, everything that was not bad so much as lazy and bored.
And it feels arrogant, often, to feel like I can do better than that -- it feels like if I could, I'd have gotten further in my writing career by now -- but so much of what's good in the world is just the product of people being arrogant enough to believe, even just in scattered moments, that they could do something great.